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	Geryon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Greek mythology, Geryon (aka Geyron), son of Chrysaor and Callirhoe, was a winged giant made from three entire human bodies conjoined at the waist.
		Geryon lived on the island of Erytheia, in the far west of the Mediterranean.
		He owned a two-headed hound, named Orthrus, which was the brother of the Cerberus, and a group of cattle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Geryon (1111 words)

	GERYON - LoveToKnow Article on GERYON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		(GERYONES, GERYONEUS), in Greek mythology, the son of Chrysaor and Callirrhoe, daughter of Oceanus, and king of the island of Erytheia.
		He is represented as a monster with three heads or three bodies (triformis, trigeminus), sometimes with wings, and as the owner of herds of red cattle, which were tended by the giant shepherd Eurytion.
		The geographical position of Erytheia is unknown, but all ancient authorities agree that it was in the far west.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GE/GERYON.htm (333 words)

	Cattle of Geryon
		He lived on Erytheia, a mythical island far to the west, Geryon was the owner of huge herds of cattle, and they were protected by the herdsman Eurythion and the two-headed watch-dog Orthrus.
		On his journey to Erytheia (in some versions) Heracles set up two landmarks when he reached the straits of Gades, which became known as the "Pillars of Heracles", (but in other versions) he built the pillars to celebrate his journey home.
		When Heracles reached Erytheia, no sooner had he landed he was confronted by the two-headed dog Orthrus, with one huge blow from his olive-wood club Heracles killed the watch-dog.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/c/cattle_of_geryon.html (717 words)

	Gemini
		Erytheia means "reddish"; it is like the ultimate condition of the precipitated cosmic forces, which take on different colours as they proceed from the subjective realms Above (symbolically in the East) to the objective realms Below (symbolically in the West), red being the lowest colour of the visible spectrum.
		The fact that the island Erytheia, where the oxen are herded, is said to lie off the coast of Epeirus suggests the uncertainty and instability of duality, which does not rest on a firm foundation.
		The dog with its two heads – light and darkness – is the guardian on the threshold of duality, where complementary aspects of generative force are operative.
	www.btinternet.com /~southcote/the_oxen_of_geryon.htm (818 words)

	helios (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		While Heracles traveled to Erytheia to retrieve the cattle of Geryon, he crossed the Libyan desert and was so frustrated at the heat that he shot an arrow at Helios, the sun.
		Helios begged him to stop and Heracles demanded the golden cup which Helios used to sail across the sea every night, from the west to the east.
		On the Quirinalis, he was worshipped as Sol Indiges.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Helios.html (813 words)

	Greek Mythology: GERYON / GERYONES Giant Constellation Orion w/ Pictures
		GERYON was a triple-bodied, four-winged Giant who dwelt on the island of Erytheia in the western reach of theearth-encircling River Okeanos.
		"The tenth labour assigned to Herakles was to fetch the cattle of Geryon from Erytheia.
		Others, however, think that Erytheia is the island that lies parallel to this city [Gades] and is separated from it by a strait of a stadium in width, that is, in view of the fine pasturage there, because the milk of the flocks that pasture thee yields no whey.
	www.theoi.com /Gigante/GiganteGeryon.html (2501 words)

	Greek Mythology and Ancient Greece - Heracles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the Island of Erytheia, in the middle of the Stream of Ocean, lived the monster, his herd guarded by the two-headed hound Orthus--that hound was the brother of Cerberus, the threeheaded hound that kept guard in the Underworld.
		Beyond him stretched the Stream of Ocean; the Island of Erytheia was there, but Heracles thought that the bull would not be able to bear him so far.
		And there the sun beat upon him, and drew all strength away from him, and he was dazed and dazzled by the rays of the sun.
	greekhistoryandmythology.com /Greek_Mythology/.../Heracles/9 (594 words)

	As Much a Part
		Erytheia's only response was to wrap her arms around him and draw him into an embrace, which he returned immediately.
		Erytheia and I were there in the next instant, pulling both Pandion and Iolaus back into the safety of the milling crowd.
		Erytheia held his head, while my redoubtable housekeeper pressed the bunched-up pieces of his shirt against the cut on his chest.
	www.asherasarchive.com /fiction/asmuchIm.html (9868 words)

	Closest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I was at Erytheia's house when the message arrived, brought by a grizzled old sailor.
		Erytheia had asked me over for lunch that day, as she often did when I wasn't off travelling, and she was bustling around at the stove.
		But Erytheia was his mother, and her grief took precedence over mine.
	members.cox.net /kerwin2/closest.html (7397 words)

	Greek Mythology: HESPERIDES Goddesses Nymphs of Evening & Sunsets ( also Hesperis ) w/ Pictures
		It was the golden glow of these apples that was probably thought to be the source of brilliant sunsets.
		The Hesperis Erytheia was the mother of Eurytion, the herdsman of Geryon, the giant of the west.
		Erytheia was later identified placed in southern Spain or North-West Africa.
	www.theoi.com /Titan/Hesperides.html (3386 words)

	In the Tracks of Hercules (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		For his final labour, Hercules is asked to retrieve a herd of red cattle, unlawfully held by Geryon, the three-bodied monster, on the dark island of Erytheia, where illusion is enthroned.
		Hercules is able to travel in the chalice, across the seas, to Erytheia where he finds the cattle.
		He is attacked by Orthrus, the two-headed dog, whom he defeats with one decisive blow, the shepherd begs for mercy, and his life is spared.
	www.lucistrust.org /hercules/labours/pisces.html (448 words)

	Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - The Labors of Hercules - XII - The Capture of the Red Cattle of Geryon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Proceed to that dark place called Erytheia where Great Illusion is enthroned where Geryon, the monster of three heads, three bodies and six hands, is lord and king.
		He knew within himself that this bright object would enable him to cross the seas to reach the land of Erytheia.
		Within the safe protection of the golden chalice, he sailed across the tossing seas until he came to Erytheia.
	usnisa.org /esoteric/hercules/herc1060.html (725 words)

	Geryon - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In Greek mythology, Geryon (aka Geyron), son of Chrysaor and Echidna, was a winged giant with three heads, six arms and six legs who lived on the island of Erytheia, in the far west of the Mediterranean.
		A two-headed dog named Orthrus and a man named Eurythion guarded the cattle.
		While Heracles traveled to Erytheia, he crossed the Libyan desert and was so frustrated at the heat that he shot an arrow at Helios, the sun.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Geryon (329 words)

	Erytheia Sources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The names of the Hesperides were Aegle, Erytheia (alt.
		The names of the Hesperides (parentage not given) were Hespere, Erytheis and Aegle;
		This is according to the edition of Georgius Thilo (Leipzig: 1878-1881), who writes that the names of the Hesperides as he gives them are taken from Apollodorus 2.5.11; the Codex Floriacensis has "egle eriteren hesperitusam"; the Codex Turonensis has "egle eritheren haesperithusa" and the edition of Petrus Danielis (1600) has "Eglem, Aretusam et Hesperusam."
	www.csulb.edu /~dbouvier/SourceFiles/i2719Sources.htm (138 words)

	World Monuments Watch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Temple of Hercules Olivario, situated in a small park near the Tiber, is also commonly called the Temple of Vesta in analogy to another circular temple in the Roman forum.
		Nevertheless, a long tradition recalls its dedication to the demigod Hercules who is said to have rested here after the tenth of his labors, retrieving the cattle of Geryon from Erytheia.
		The beauty of the building's proportions and the sculptural quality of its capitals have always been admired and studied by architects, artists and humanists including Giuliano da Sangallo and Poggio Bracciolini in the late fifteenth century and Giovanni Battista Piranesi in the late eighteenth century.
	www.wmf.org /html/programs/ittem.html (366 words)

	The Moon Cattle of Hera
		Often they were further out to sea, fading in and out of sight in banks of fog, or seeming closer than they were in watery mirages.
		The island of Erytheia in particular was difficult to find by those who didn't know the way.
		The crew was entirely male, men who spoke continuously of the fury of their sea god and the restless ire of their four wind gods.
	www.moonspeaker.ca /Heraklaea/labour7.html (573 words)

	Greek Art: Hercules in the Zeus Temple in Olympia
		Above the doors of the temple is the hunt after the boar from Arcadia, and also Herakles’ exploits against Dionysos of Thrace and against Geryones in Erytheia; he is also shown as he is about to receive the burden from Atlas and against cleansing the earth of dung from the Eleans.
		Above the doors of the opisthodomos he is shown taking the Amazon’s girdle, and also represented there are his exploits against the stag, against the bull of Knossos, the birds at Stymphalos, the Hydra, and the lion in the territory of Argos.
		Hercules against Geryon in Cadiz Spain, the king of Erytheia with the three bodies from his waist down and his dog Orthus with two heads.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Arts/HerculesOlympia.htm (2036 words)

	Full Moon Meditation
		I will begin by taking a look at the mythical story of the labour that Hercules had to perform in Pisces and then offer some thoughts about its symbolic meaning in terms of the evolution of our consciousness.
		He was told to go to a dark place called Erytheia, a place of great illusion ruled by a monster called Geryon, who had three heads, three bodies and six hands.
		Hercules was told by his teacher to invoke the aid of Helius, the god of fire in the sun.
	www.worldservicegroup.com /archives/tl-pisces-2005.html (2367 words)

	Hercle - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Hercle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hippolyta promised Heracles the girdle, but Hera incited the Amazons against him, and he was reluctantly forced to kill the queen during the ensuing battle.
		10th labour – stealing the cattle of Geryon The three-bodied monster Geryon lived at the end of the world on the island of Erytheia; his red oxen being guarded by the two-headed dog Orthrus and giant Eurytion.
		Hercules sailed westwards in a golden vessel borrowed from the sun god Helios, setting up the ‘Pillars of Hercules’, Calpe and Abyla, on the way; the pillars are usually considered the rocks either side of the Straits of Gibraltar.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Hercle (1560 words)

	Whoosh! Episode Guide: TRANSCRIPT HTLJ REUNIONS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		We didn't expect you there." Erytheia: "What Pandeon means is, we-- knew you were busy." I: "Yeah.
		Your son drops by out of the blue after who-knows-how long, and expects you to welcome him home with open arms." Erytheia: "Don't do this." I: "I don't expect anything from either of you.
		I couldn't understand how he'd-- choose a life of war over a life with me." I: "It was his loss." Erytheia: "That's what I told myself-- until you left, too.
	www.whoosh.org /epguide/trans/h422tran.html (2989 words)

	Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age Of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch eBook by BookRags
		Another task enjoined him was to bring to Eurystheus the oxen of Geryon, a monster with three bodies who dwelt in the island Erytheia (the red), so called because it lay at the west, under the rays of the setting sun.
		The poets, led by the analogy of the lovely appearance of the western sky at sunset, viewed the west as a region of brightness and glory.
		Hence they placed in it the Isles of the blest, the ruddy isle Erytheia, on which the bright oxen of Geryon were pastured, and the isle of the Hesperides.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/3327/115.html (518 words)

	12 Trials of Heracles
		When the heat go to be too much, Heracles began shooting arrows at the sun which prompted Helios to aid Heracles by lending him the Golden Goblet to ride across the sea to Erytheia.
		En route to Erytheia, Heracles set two landmarks which still stand today that flank the straight of Gibralter.
		When Heracles finally landed on Erytheia, he immediately killed the watch dog of Geryon, Orthrus, with his mighty club.
	www.spiffy-entertainment.com /trials.html (1618 words)

	Immortal Journey: The Tales of Heracles, Leo, Cancer, Sagittarius, Centaurus, Draco, Sagitta and Cerberus. Chapter 11: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Each of their children is different from the next, but each is horrible, and they say that we all confront them as we descend into the land of death.
		Then, as soon as Heracles had climbed aboard and hung his lion skin as a sail, Helius blew cool winds toward the vessel and it carried him away.
		The winds blew him all the way to the shore of Erytheia, and Heracles tied up his boat and disembarked.
	www.business-esolutions.com /starmyths/myths/heracles11.htm (2288 words)

	Thebes, Herakles labors - The oxen of Geryone
		After many adventures, Herakles arrived at the frontiers of Africa and Europe, where he erected two pillars, Calpe in Libya and Abyla in Europe (the well known Pillars of Hercules).
		Annoyed there by the heat, Herakles shot an arrow on the Sun, who in return gave him a golden cup or a boat as present, admiring his boldness, and with it, he sailed to Erytheia, where he found Eurytheion and his dog Orthos, as well as Geryon and killed them.
		Herakles with the cattle sailed to Tartessus and return the golden cup to Helios.
	www.sikyon.com /thebes/Labors/labor_eg10.html (176 words)

	Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, page 253 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A giant with three bodies and powerful wings, the son of Chrysaor and CallirrhSe.
		He dwelt in the island of Erytheia, lying in the ocean, in the extreme west; and was the possessor of a herd of red cattle, watched by the shepherd Eurytlon, and a two-headed dog called Orthros.
		It was one of the twelve labours of Heracles to carry off these cattle, and after a violent contest to slay the pursuing Geryon with his arrows.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /seyffert/0256.html (690 words)

	GERYON - Gods from Greek Mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He lived on the island of Erytheia, beyond the Straits of Gibraltar - and practically halfway to the Edge of the World as far as HERACLES was concerned.
		In a surprising break from tradition, these had no nasty qualities whatsoever, but were guarded by Eurythion, a son of ARES, and ORTHRUS, a two-headed monster hound from the TYPHON and ECHIDNA production team.
		Travelling to Erytheia was not so easy in those days, and HERACLES had many a warming-up adventure, including too much warming by Sun God HELIOS as he travelled the Libyan Desert.
	www.godchecker.com /pantheon/greek-mythology.php?deity=GERYON (471 words)

	Hercules: Reunions
		Zeus reassures his son that he's proud of who he is and doesn't expect him to change.
		Though Erytheia is happy to see him, she initially holds back showing her affection.
		In the meantime, Iolaus and Erytheia begin to restore their relationship as Erytheia confesses how hurt and lonely she was after Iolaus left home.
	www.hostultra.com /~kszonew/hwo/season4/4022.htm (948 words)

	The Rose Line Wheel
		By discovering that the Arthurian legends are take-offs from a couple of Hercules-related myths, a connection is made between the Arthur/Pendragon and Hercules bloodlines.
		Behold Greek myth wherein Hercules, prior to mating with the snake woman, was in the process of returning from a place called "Erytheia" somewhere on the west coast of Europe.
		Doesn't "Aereda" look like "Erytheia" (of Hercules myth) as well as the Viking port, "Erethlyn," so that the Vikings of Erethlyn appear as relatives of the Rhedae.
	www.tribwatch.com /wheel.htm (5788 words)

	AsMuchAPart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He hadn't been kidding about being worried over Erytheia.
		Of course, I already knew who he was, since I'd been a rather unwilling witness to his confrontation with Dahok in Iolaus' body.
		Krathes, not at all pleased with this development, waved his troops forward.
	www2.cconnect.net /Kerry/AsMuch.html (9786 words)

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